I cursed [Larry Merchant] out once, and I told him that he was a phony.

That guy [Floyd Mayweather] is throwing his money around like there is no tomorrow.

The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one.

I didn't fight this fight for the blacks, the whites or the Spanish, I fought th fight for the people. We're all God's children. I don't see color. I'm not a racist When I look at Gerry Cooney, I just see a man trying to take my head off.

You can't put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today's class of fighters.

I'm not a guy who counts cards. I'm a guy that plays with feeling. Because I feel that if something is going to come up, it comes up; if it doesn't, it doesn't. And a lot of people get pissed at me because that's the way I play but that's the way I learned to play - with my feelings.

I don't know if I have any regrets, I have had a pretty successful life. I have learned good, bad, and ugly.